"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.“

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne quote about Art: "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."

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"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

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"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."

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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."

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"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

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